Applied Physics B
Last updated ISSN 0721-7269
Applied Physics B is published by Springer Science+Business Media in physics and astronomy. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,090.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Applied Physics B concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
- Spectroscopy and Laser Applications
- Laser Design and Applications
- Solid State Laser Technologies
- Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
- Photonic and Optical Devices
- Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics
- Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma
- Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
- Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0721-7269, 0946-2171, 1432-0649 |
| Subject area | Physics and Astronomy |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,090 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 11,987 |
| Publishing since | 1973 |
| Journal website | www.springer.com/journal/340 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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